Recent developments in patent law, most notably the effective nullification of the Supreme Court's 1972 Benson decision excluding mathematical algorithms from patentable subject matter, have attempted to reflect an increasingly sophisticated approach to computer science and technology. Despite...

Section 16(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 allows for the recovery of short-swing profits realized by certain insiders from trading in a corporation's stock within a period of less than six months. Three generations of corporate law students have been taught the “lowest-in,...

With the passage and impending implementation of the “first-to-file” provisions of the America Invents Act of 2011, the U.S. patent system must rely more than ever before on patent documents for its own ontological commitments concerning the existence of claimed kinds of useful objects and...

In business-to-business (B2B), e-tendering is often mandated in situations where significant amount of money is involved in procurement of goods and services. This study focuses on Order-to-Cash (O2C), a sub-process of the larger Inquiry-to-Cash (I2C) process – an e-tender driven internal...